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2000-03-14

 

 

It is raining again, not hard and not constantly but it is definitively wet. In the mean time the temperature is up again at around 7°C.

In contrast to yesterday I didn't perform much today. Oh, I did create the NOW- and HTM_ files with a few indices so Wilbert could build the server-chema for TeleSales. Not a big job, just a little time waster.

And I patched up an OLI program for the HCC_ file adaptations. While I was doing the adaptations about a month ago Sven, from OLI, came by because he had to do something with the classification codes in OLI. I explained him how the new system with the HCC_ file was organized so he could build it in in OLI. Last week Jan noticed that the classification stuff didn't work and came to me with his remarks.
Yep It all works in OMSI-3 but not in OLI. Either Sven did nothing about it or he did make only one or two changes and left the rest untouched. And I forgot to check. He has since left the company for a new job so I will have to do the changes. The changes are not difficult, I lose most time searching which programs must be adapted than doing the adaptations.

Well Today I lost most time due to a few consecutive crashes of my PC. Most of the time it is stable with only Opera (browser), Netscape (mail) and Client Access (terminal emulation to AS/400) running, sometimes I have CuteHTML and/or Lotus Word Pro open as well. Nothing extracting, a Pentium 200 (Clasic+MMX) with 64MB should cope with it and mostly does. But today was different with lockups swallowing even the ctrl+alt+del salute.

Last week I was pressed for time and didn't read much from the other daynoters. Today I picked up on most of them (some days remain unread but that's life).

For about the first time I checked my site statistics. I don't know enough about it to understand half of the data presented by iTool and their help only tells me what I can do with the data but not what it actually means. For example what is the difference between a hit and a session or between a page load and a page read?
Well I changed from frames to redirection and I wanted to check how that would impact my site. Therefore I wanted to take a snapshot now and compare it to a snapshot in a few weeks time. And I wanted a comparison between my daynotes and my weeknotes.
I found out that nobody reads the weeknote, which stands to reason because it contains nothing more than the daynotes and it is not linked off a referring site. Week notes are easier for searching but daynotes are more 'rounded', they look better finished, a week note obviously is only finished once verey seven days. But I do have double work keeping them both.
The main thing I noticed is that the iTool statistics pages (generated by Statistics Server 5.02 from Media House) don't like being printed by Netscape and they don't like Opera either. Well I got a bunch of papers with only the URL at the top and a page number at the bottom. The strange thing is that some pages printed with data.
The other big surprise was that the 'currenttop.html' page was visited most. If you remember that is the small top frame containing nothing but a few links. The next most visited page was the current.html page that defines and presents the frame with the daynote. Its frequency was about half that of the meaningless top frame. Now that I drop the frames I may get some better stats in stead of overblown pages. Although ...
Another strange thing (error?) is that, for Sunday and Monday combined, I get visits for , divided by continent, 32.8% from North America, 19.4% from Europe and 0% from all the other continents (south America, Asia, Australia and Africa). That is 22 sessions from America and 13 from Europe while citing a total, of 67 sessions.

Maybe my maths are a bit rusty but I think somehing is not right here.


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